Examine The Ethics Of Sex Selection In The Contemporary Chinese Fertility

Along with the development and progress in modern reproductive technology, the sex selection has been realized and achieved universality. There still exist the traditional bad customs of"regarding men as superior to women"for a long time, thus bring the present status of the male and female sex proportion out of balance in our country, bring the serious burden and harm to the family and the society, and bring a series of question of ethics.At today initiating to construct harmonious society, the harmonious sex as an important part of social construction, and which play an important role in social civilization progress. While promote the economy develop and political democracy continuously, the perfect sex harmonious is important part. Therefore, analyzing the problem of sex selection in our current reproductive domain from an ethical view, and exploring the effective solutions to the problem of sex selection, has much significance both in theory and practice.This thesis consists of four chapters:The first is"The appeal of ethics in sex selection"; Sex is not only physiological sex, namely natural attributes, but also including social sex, namely social attributes. However, people's knows to the physiological sex and to it of crankiness for long time, thus result in the sex selection phenomenon of"regarding men as superior to women", and the social population sex comparison be out of balance, all result in serious influence to the family and the societies. Therefore, the further establishing and improving reproductive moral is a call of the sex selection.The second is"The ethical analysis upon the problem of sex selection in reproductive domain"; the source which exists over a long period of time to the sex selection phenomenon was systematically analyzed from an ethical view. Because under the influence of our country traditional economic and social management style, and the imperfection of economic system in the period of modern social transition, cause the concept of " bearing son for old age " and the demand of male increase. Because the female oneself is misled by traditional moral value view over a long period of time, lacking to fight for oneself right, supporting the independent spirit of self interest, and driving by economic interests, result in some of them weaken the sense of ethical responsibilities.The third is"The value-orientation of sex selection in reproductive"; focused on the value of principles to be followed in the reproductive activities. That is the reproductive rights is the value basis of sex selection, the morals responsibility is the moral essence of sex selection, the unification of right and responsibility is the value guideline of sex selection, and the equality of men and women is the value goal of sex selection.The fourth is"The ethical guidance on the subject of sex selection reproductive". In order to ensure sex selection reproductive is embark on a path that match morals and also conducive to social development, from the internal and external aspects discussed how to guide the ethics of sex selection in reproductive subject. According to the laws of individual moral formation,first is the subjective awareness of women is need cultivated, and the inherent belief of women completely changed discrimination status must be enhancing; the second is strengthen the main moral self-discipline, from good moral cultivation such as"Introspection"and "Being treasure oneself in solitude"; then is to meet ethical requirements of the implementation of sex selection, apart from relying on the moral self-regulatory mechanism, even without external constraint mechanism; the last is establish a correct birth concept which is historic. Consequently, to treat history, we should not only change the traditional birth culture, but also to build new birth culture.In short, only from external and internal self-discipline both enhance the reproductive ethics, and enhance the ethical quality of the people, the phenomenon of"regarding men as superior to women"and the problem of sexism overspread more could be kept within limits radically, and the correct value and behavior choices could be made when facing numerous and complicated ethical issues.